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Sandra Alland’s Jacket2 feature on new Scottish poets collects the work of nine poets from Glasgow and Edinburgh in an effort to track current trends in varied and explorative poetics, from Alison Smith’s British Sign Language poetry to Colin Herd’s humorous and versatile texts to Marvo Men’s performance pieces — and much more.